How dare the WHO criticise good Tory policy. Just as bad as the bbc and it's left wing views on anything Conservative.

Catering for the poor and unfortunates would cost us even more and particularly the higher tax payers. Just because much of Europe is more generous to these people, certainly doesn't mean we have to follow suit. Europe generally has better health services, pensions, welfare and benefits and this reflects it's idealistic socialism. Even more reason for us to get out of the EU asp.

No, for once we have a Government following Maggie T's philosophies: if you aint got, you don't get, and rightly ridding us of an over culture of altruism and pity. If Cameron hasn't got the stomach, then bring back Duncan-Smith. He aint bright, but at least he's got excellent Thatcherite values, and knows what the Traditional Tory really wants.

[A time machine to travel back to Victorian Britain?]

Nothing wrong with that.

Maggie T was a professed admirer of the Amended Poor Laws of the 1880s. These helped fashion her philosophy, and the advent of much admired Thatcherism.

These laws made it much more difficult for the poor to get handouts from the State and reduced their dependence on the workhouse. To survive they had to seek work of any kind, and provided the cheap labour that drove the Industrial Revolution reducing the heavy taxation of the rich. Result, a very prosperous country.

Thatcher, Joseph, and to some extent, Tebbit, incorporated this into their policies, and is something the present Government neglect at it's own peril.